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Images du carnaval de Bâle 1973
It was in 1973 that this film, the first film shot in Super 8 mm with magnetic sound, was broadcast on television. The Carnival of Basel is famous for the music of its fife-and-drum military bands. The imaginary quality of the carnival comes face to face with musique concrète.

Bachelard parmi nous ou l'héritage invisible 1972 star_border 10

ElectroRythmes 1968 star_border 6
ElectroRhythmes is a short videographic essay.

Eveil 1967 star_border 8
Awakening is sort of the history of mankind transposed through the dream world of Peter Foldes who conceived, directed and designed this original work.

La Planète Verte 1966 star_border 6
An imaginary planet, an abstract universe in continual motion, where minute organisms. half flea half amoeba, the ‘actuphages', live and evolve peacefully.

A Bird's Appetite. 1966 star_border 6
Artistic short film about a man's pursuit of a woman, and its implications.

Lignes et points 1966 star_border 5
Infinite star space, where luminous forms evolve; dots swarm in webs of insubstantial lines.

A Boy Full of Future 1965
A graphic variation where a new-born baby devours its mother, then turns into a bloodthirsty monster. Some music touches him. He calms down a bit, then returns to his destructive ways, before getting squashed.

In This Atrocious Garden 1964 star_border 10
This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.

Fautrier l'enragé 1964
Documentary of the work and personality of Jean Fautrier, painter of "Informal Art"

Le Télescripteur 1964
A "télescripteur" is a device in television control rooms which makes it possible to write credits, texts, mixed or not with other images, intended to appear on the television screen before being diffused. In this film, designed as a real interlude to interpose between television programs, a small character represents the "télescripteur".

Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau 1964
Cocteau, at his home, remembers his childhood, talks at length about theater, cinema, literature, and draws portraits of friends.

The Pit and the Pendulum 1964 star_border 6.3
A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...

Autoportrait Dubuffet 1964
Documentary about Jean Dubuffet

Le Jabrebbock 1964
Le Jabrebbock is a mythical character who introduced the confusion into the language, destroed the meaning of phrases.

Le Café liégeois 1963 star_border 6

Les fleurs 1963
Expansion attempted of documentary techniques.

Method 1 1963
In 1962, in the small town of Marvejols, young technicians from the RTF are trained to what can and should be direct cinema. “Liberate the camera, be able to throw it into the human space, into life.”

Le mari ne compte pas 1963 star_border 4.5

Font-aux-Cabres 1962
Font-aux-cabres is the name of an Andalusian village, benefiting the Commander of the Order of Calatrava, who supports Juana Beltraneja, the pretender to the throne of Castile, against the Catholic Monarchs. The Commander's tyranny is felt throughout the country, subjecting village women and girls to his whims by threat or violence. Laurencia, who dares to refuse him, is kidnapped on her wedding day, and her fiancé Frondoso is imprisoned.

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Two Years Vacation 1974 star_border 6.9
The story of a group of young New Zealand school boys. Because one of them is the nephew of a ship captain, they win the opportunity to go on a sailing trip. Some pirates (Forbes and Pike) are looking for a boat so they can go and find treasure on a deserted island. They manage to be recruited as crew members on that same boat as the school boys. After a mutiny, the pirates take over the boat and take the young boys as hostages. Helped by O'Brian, the young kids manage to escape from the pirates with the boat. After a storm, they have to land on a deserted island. They have learn to live together in harmony if they want their community to survive, despite the rivalry within the group. But is this island really a deserted one? And can they really get away from the pirates?

Les Saintes Chéries 1965 star_border 6

Thierry la Fronde 1963 star_border 7
Thierry la Fronde was a French television series that aired in 1963–66 on the television station, ORTF original script by Jean-Claude Deret. Dubbed into English, it was shown internationally in the 1960s, including in Canada, where it was referred to under the original name, and also as The King's Outlaw. It was shown as well in Poland as Thierry Śmiałek. On ABC in Australia, it was called The King's Outlaw. In the Netherlands, 32 of the 52 episodes were shown in 1967 as Thierry de Slingeraar, as a Netherlands Television Service programme.

Janique Aimée 1963 star_border 7

Commandant X 1962 star_border 9

Bonne nuit les petits 1962 star_border 5.9

Leclerc enquête 1962

Poly 1961 star_border 6.5

Le Trésor des treize maisons 1961

Le Théâtre de la jeunesse 1960 star_border 6

Les Aventures de Tintin, d'après Hergé 1957 star_border 4.5

Le Tour de la France par deux enfants 1957

La caméra explore le temps 1957 star_border 9

Plaisir du théâtre 1956 star_border 7

Une enquête de l'inspecteur Ollivier 1955

Une enquête de l'inspecteur Grégoire 1955